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Minimum time of stay: 18 days. working schedule: 5 hours per day, 2 free days in each 7 days.

Dear Volunteer:

Please read ALL THE PROFILE to be completely informed of what are the conditions of volunteering in Quinta da Bazágueda. Especialy, keep in mind the following:

Quinta da Bazágueda is a very ancient farm. It's a farm, in it's true meaning, not a house with a garden or little field with crops. Beeing an ancient farm, it has very basic acomodation. The houses are from the 16th century or older, so they are cold in winter, of course. If you come in a rainy day, as in all rainy days, the farm work must go on and some of the tasks cannot be delayed. Also keep in mind that it's not possibly to make a specific food for you if you have a very diferent diet from "most" people. We always have vegetable soop, so if you're vegetarian you're welcome to come, but if the rest of the team is having meat, with plain rice you can have soop with rice, but not a spec...
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Town or City: Pombal All Year: YesArea (ha): 1200 m2Persons: 2Category: Accommodation Business

Host ID: 46445Country: Portugal

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This is a small BnB in the middle of Portugal and 30km from the coast. There is a main-building, 2 little guesthouses and a garden (about 1200m2)We, Richard, Maryk and Vincent bought the quinta in 2008 and are building and rebuilding the place ever since. We did, and do everything ourselves.

From masonry walls, until designing and making furniture. Preferably from old material. Lots of recycling.Now we have two activities going on, a BnB and a sound and light company.

So there is always a lot of different kind of work to do.We decide each day which activity we choose to do. Depending on the weather or just what we like to do.

Such as: the continuing story of (re)buildingHelping in the sound business, making cables, painting speaker boxes etc, cleaning and helping with the guests of the B&B.

But most of all we need help for the garden!

With three sound engineers in the house we never learned properly gardening. So we are kind of fighting a losing battle agains...
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We are a self supporting organic farm and our main activity is goat cheese production. Our farm exists since 1984, when we built our farm starting just with a few goats. Nowadays, the farm accounts more than 100 goats, 10 black pigs and 20 chickens.We are located in a small valley near a water reservoir, and the entire farm is surrounded by forest and different types of agrarian and wild landscape. Our land is built in small terraces, where we grow all the vegetables we eat, fruits, corn for bread baking, olives for oil and grapes for juice, additionally we also grow all the animal feed we need for our livestock. Almost all of our food comes from our farm, which includes vegetables, olive oil, pig, chicken and goat meat. During all year we need help from volunteers in a variety of activities, which includes planting, weeding, watering, crop harvesting, cutting food for the animals, making hay, olive harvesting, cleaning manure out of the stables, grape juice making, amongst oth...
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Town or City: Graca All Year: YesArea (ha): 1Persons: 1 or 2Category: Other

Host ID: 40128Country: Portugal

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We are living (family with one child, 15 years old) in a rural area in the middle of Portugal. We need somebody to help my wife in the house and to do garden work also. If you can teach our child by learning another language it will be fine also.We eat vegan food with many fruits and vegetables. Our rest day is Saturday. This day we do not work.The helper is invited to eat with us but there is an outside kitchen also.Internet WIFI is available. Shower, bath room is available. In June 2017 we had a very terrible fire in our region because of this we have much work for building up our garden and outside things. We have three very nice dogs.We have more then 100 fruit trees and we need help for that too. If somebody is fit in permaculture we would be very happy.Evelyn makes her first experience with recipes in row vegan. If somebody has experience in that it would be good also.We would like to build up walls from stone for our lakes (100.000l and 25.000l) to make them...
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Town or City: Porto All Year: noArea (ha): Persons: 1Category: Accommodation Business

Host ID: 82357Country: Portugal

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A small guest house with 3 rooms and 3 cats, in Porto Center. I need someone to help me manage both the house and a 4 room self catered apartment. I want someone that can be autonomous when i will not be around.Help needed is to welcome the guests, keep the house neat and tidy and keep the cats happy!A private room is provided.

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We are a German (Franz 33) and Polish (Kasia 26) couple who both enjoyed traveling for the last years individually and together. We speak English (both), German (Franz), some French (Franz), Polish (Kasia) some Spanish (Kasia) and we are very interested in learning Portuguese. We are both much interested in organic farming, permaculture and sustainable living. Franz has a Bachelor degree in Biology and we both have successfully taken part in a PDC program. Kasia in 2018 here in Portugal and Franz back in 2016 in Croatia. Kasia also likes to practice Yoga and would love to share and exchange the practice experience.

In Oct. 2017 we made our best dream come true and got the land in the heart of Portugal, where we live now with our two cats (Viking and Selma). The land had already some basic permaculture principles in its design when we bought it, but there is still a long way to go to turn it into what we imagine. We are setting up a food forest, planning to do some natural buildin...
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Hi! this farm is inside alentejo, near to estremoz and portalegre.I am transforming an arid place and old infrastructure in abundant self-suficient farm homestead.I have a house near where i live with 1 bed and2 bunkbeds, kitchen and bathroom with shower.I am vegetarian, have some food in the kitchen garden and buy other basic food. I offer and cook breakfast or brunch and dinner for 4 hours of work per day, if helpers desesperate for meat/fish have a local market.

tasks:- making stone walls around property;- planting trees and bushes around property;- open swales;- greenhouse for plants in the winter;- chicken house;- water reservoir ferro-ciment;- permaculture garden;- instaling food forest.

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Small stone house with studio, various workshops and outbuildings in need of care and basic decoration and maintenance. Garden, future small scale smallholding possibilities. 7kms from town, on the edge of small rural village. Accommodation is in a 14 sq mt bedsit self contained for more independence, or typical HelpX kitchen and facilities-share in the main house if you want. One of the projects is to convert outbuildings into liveable spaces for future HelpX visitors. Help needed in maintenance and development of plot. Longer stay possible.

You need to be DiY or garden maintenance capable, familiar with power tools helpful but not essential. Basic building skills would be handy, but also not essential. Host is a busy independent artesan with little time to maintain and develop the property. . Normal HelpX conditions and hours are fine but flexible and open to suggestions. For instance the normal Helpx of working a few hours per day could be reorganised to say, two days...
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Town or City: Messines All Year: YesArea (ha): 1.5Persons: 4Category: Other

Host ID: 7221Country: Portugal

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Ecology and sustainable living are at the heart of everything here at the CdC project. After many years preparing the infrastructure, our public activity centre is nearing completion. This will include a cafe and general purpose venue for exhibitions, education, entertainment and various clubs (sewing, motorbikes, language etc etc). At this stage of the project we would be particularly interested to talk with professional people who might be interested in a longer term paid proposition in areas of management including building and gardens development and maintenance as well as marketing and business development. In the short term we would welcome someone with carpentry experience and or general building / DIY experience.

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I am looking up for helpers from February 2019 and in the following months.------------------------------The farm is still open for interested visitors who like to discover the nature of the Algarve. My place is quiet.I need help for the maintenance of the surroundings,of the biological garden with permaculture and for walking my dogs ( I have a new wild little dog which a couple found near trash containers). In every case I am glad to have company and help.Helpers with dog are welcome.Helpers who come in winter need warm shoes and clothes.The house is big, with 1 separate flat and one double room more, every for 2 people. There is a big terrace, kitchen and bathroom.Tasks: you work four hours in the morning. Afternoon and weekend are free, but cooking yourselves. Also helping in the kitchen-cleaning etc.Mostly I cook lunch for us,also vegan and we eat together. The rule is that we eat what I cook or what Books for instance a of the helpers. Breakfast and dinne...
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